Joan Vollmer Quotes

#1. Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#2. Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Lord Mountbatten

#3. The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change.

Murray Rothbard

#4. I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.

Geena Davis

#5. I romanticized domesticity for a while, and loved having a shopping list of groceries stuck to the fridge for the first time.

Liberty Ross

#6. I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

George R R Martin

#7. I wouldn't know what to do retiring. So I have no plans to retire.

Ronald Meyer

#8. Joy. That is one of the main blessings of the All-Powerful. If we are happy, we are on the right road.

Paulo Coelho

#9. There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

Yoko Ono

#10. I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

Amanda Peet

#11. As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is.

Henry Rosovsky

#12. God should be able to wink that good. Like somebody taking your picture. Give me joy. Give me fun. Give me love.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

Andrew Sarris

#14. As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

Pete Townshend